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Rounding problem R vs Excel.

3 messages · Rolf Turner, Ott Toomet, Knut M. Wittkowski

Rolf Turner
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David A. Paul wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
An excellent source of information about the incompetence of Excel
as a statistical package can be found on Jonathan Cryer's web
page at

	http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~jcryer/JSMTalk2001.pdf

Some incredible howlers from their ``help'' pages are given, as
are a number of useful references.  (None from the biological
literature however.  If David Paul could dig up the reference
mentioned by his biologist friend, it would be useful.)

					cheers,

						Rolf Turner
						rolf at math.unb.ca

  
  


  


    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Ott Toomet
    

    

      
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Hej,

just about excel -- excel 97 includ a kind of flying game (or what
ever it should be called).  There was a landscape you could fly above,
and in the middle of it there were a screen with different names
(authors?).  You had to put the cursor on a particular cell and click
a particular icon, AFAIR, in order to start the game.

I have not hear about it later but I have tried it myself.


That program is just full of surprises.

Ott

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Knut M. Wittkowski
    

    

      
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At 10:43 2003-06-04 -0300, you wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Here is another reference on Excel "features":

http://www.rucares.org/Course/Excel.ppv

Note that this presentation runs with PowerPoint 97 and the viewer in more 
recent versions, but that more recent versions of PowerPoint are not really 
compatible.


Knut M. Wittkowski, PhD,DSc
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